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Cavorting With the Animals: New Discoveries on the Voyage of Rediscovery

Cavorting With the Animals: New Discoveries on the Voyage of Rediscovery

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I arrived in Botswana 10 days ago, and I’ll have lots to say about my visit here, which has been full of surprises, in a coming post. But last Wednesday I ventured across the border to the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa, and it was such an amazing experience it needs its own blog post. While I’ve lived and traveled fairly extensively in North Africa, and I hold a Certificate in African Studies as part of my Masters degree,…

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A Livable Country Where I Wonder How People Live: Discovering Uruguay

A Livable Country Where I Wonder How People Live: Discovering Uruguay

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Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, is the kind of human city that cities should be. Orderly, safe, pleasant, the city’s streets and its beachside promenade — along what is called the Rambla, which stretches for many miles — are full of joggers, bikers, dog walkers, and others just out enjoying life and themselves. I almost gave Montevideo a miss, but am glad I did not. Montevideo always figured big for me as a kid, since it was off Montevideo, in…

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Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes: Rediscovery, 50 Years On

Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes: Rediscovery, 50 Years On

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Coming into Costa Rica this time, I thought how different my arrival into the country was from the first time, 50 years, almost to the day, later. This time I was flying in a Copa Airlines 737 from Panama City to San Jose. A half century ago, I was nearing the end of my four-month exploration through Mexico and Central America. Three days earlier, I was leaving Guatemala heading south, four countries yet to go, with $22 left in my…

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Lessons Relearned: Rediscovery Continues

Lessons Relearned: Rediscovery Continues

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Sometimes it’s good to relearn things about yourself, important things but things perhaps forgotten with time and routine. My seven days in Panama, even beginning before leaving Colombia, have been largely a relearning experience for me. The main thing I’ve relearned is how focused, persistent, and resilient I can be in reaching an objective. In this case, it was the focus, persistence, and resilience in finding destinations in a country that suffers from a serious allergy to signs. On several…

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Wherever You Go, There You Are: My Voyage of Rediscovery Continues

Wherever You Go, There You Are: My Voyage of Rediscovery Continues

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If you haven’t already, read the first installment in this ongoing journal. It will bring you up to speed on what this is about. It has been a full week today (Saturday) since I left home on what I’m calling my voyage of rediscovery, and six full days that I’ve been in Colombia, the first country on my planned 10-country Odyssey. The first few days I was in Cartagena, and now I’m in Santa Marta, easterly along the country’s Caribbean…

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